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Millennials (Young adults) Are Having Less Sex Than Older Generations

Millennial – a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000. ( Basically if you were born in the late 80s, early 90’s you are a millennial)

Today’s 20-year-olds are having less sex than the previous generation. ( You don’t mean it)

About 15% of adults between the ages of 20 and 24 reported having no sexual partners since they turned 18(say truth), according to new research published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. Just 6% of the previous generation said the same at that age.

“This is part of a general theme of later maturation that’s been pretty well-documented,” said Jean Twenge, lead researcher of the new study and author of the book “Generation Me”

Just as young adults are now less likely to have jobs and get married and are more likely to live with their parents, part of this sexual trend may have something to do with economic realities, she said. Still, other factors might also explain these results.

Too busy for sex

“There’s the possibility that technology has something to do with this,” Twenge said. If you’re spending more time texting with your friends and less time in person, she explained, you might have fewer opportunities to “hook up.” Or, more simply, since “there are more ways to entertain yourself,” sex is less important, being just one of many possibilities on a growing list. ( i almost agree)

Scheduling sex: How much sex should you be having?

For the study, Twenge and her colleagues used data from the General Social Survey, which was conducted between the years 1989 and 2014. The survey essentially asked all the right questions for the purposes of this study, explained Ryne Sherman, co-author of the paper and a psychologist at Florida Atlantic University.

The nationally representative survey includes demographic information about each respondent, allowing Twenge and Sherman to compare differences in sexual activity across lines of gender, race, education level, region and religious service attendance. Among a hundred or so queries about a variety of topics, the survey asks people direct questions about their sexual partners.

This was crucial, said Twenge, also a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. “We could compare people at the same age … and we were looking at no sexual partners compared to having any sexual partners.”

What they discovered was that young adults today — millennials (born starting in the 1980s) and iGen (born in the mid ’90s) — are less likely to be sexually active compared with young adults from Generation X — those born in the 1960s and ’70s. They also discovered that levels of sexual inactivity increased for women more than men, whites more than blacks, those who did not attend college more than those who did, and those who lived in the east more than those in the west.

In terms of getting a late start having sex, millennials most resembled those born during the 1920s. (You don’t mean it)

Changing attitudes

“It’s also consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data,” said Martin Monto, a sociology professor at the University of Portland who is not linked to the current study. The most recent CDC data (PDF) on teen sexual behavior found that the percentage of high school students who have had sex plummeted from 54% in 1991 to 41% in 2015.

“A lot of that drop happened pretty recently,” Twenge commented.

Based on the latest statistics, Twenge observed that this generation appears to be waiting longer to have sex, while an increasing minority wait even longer — until their early 20s or later. ( i give up)

“It’s a good study; the data is excellent: It’s consistent with other data, so it’s pretty solid,” said Monto, whose own 2014 study involving data from the General Social Survey found that young adults between 18 and 25 did not report “more sexual partners since age 18, more frequent sex, or more partners during the past year” than Generation X respondents.

They’re commonly billed as the “hookup” generation, but this gives a false impression of millennials, explained Monto. “The term ‘hookup’ is entirely ambiguous,” he said, and since it is “basically a nebulous term that could mean anything,” it has led to a misunderstanding of what’s actually going on today. ( This is correct though)

Less pressure

Overall, both Monto’s and Twenge’s results suggest a win for the young adults who are not emotionally ready for a romantic relationship. The pressure is off everyone. However, “humans hit their sexual peak in their early 20s,” noted Twenge, so presumably there are many who are ready for and want a romantic relationship, but they simply have fewer opportunities.

“This generation is much more concerned about safety on both a physical and an emotional level,” Twenge said.

In conclusion – we are having less sex than our parents did in their youth. Who agress with this or do you think this research does not include Nigeria?